The lost is now found
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (342100)
Rockingham, Australia
June 11, 2020 6:44pm CST
We have been missing a big, white, plastic basin. Vin uses it when he washes the car. He half-fills it with warm, soapy water then dips the broom in it and washes the car with the broom. But we haven’t been able to find it for ages. I’ve looked everywhere I could think of as I’m usually the one who repurposes things or rearranges storage but it seemed to have disappeared off the face of the earth.
Today, I was looking down the paddock where we have several containers of water put out for the kangaroos to drink from. I couldn’t work out what was so white then it suddenly hit me. In the summer, we thought the ‘roos would appreciate more watering points and, because the basin was cheap, we put it down the paddock and filled it with water. Now that we’ve found it we had both forgotten agreeing to give it to the roos.
I knew it had to be somewhere and now the lost is found as they say. Another mystery solved. lol
The photo shows a joey practising his hops. The white basin is now in place next to the blue basin which you can see in the top right-hand corner of the photo.
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@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
12 Jun 20
This made me smile. I've done things like this and then, forgot all about it! I'm the one that throws something away, then realize that it wasn't junk after all
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@JudyEv (342100)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Jun 20
@kobesbuddy Like walking around with your glasses on your head. lol
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@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
12 Jun 20
@JudyEv Jay misplaced his phone tonight, it was laying on the futon in plain sight!
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@wolfgirl569 (108144)
• Marion, Ohio
12 Jun 20
@JudyEv I do that a lot of times. Sometimes I have accidentally found where I put something. Once found it made sense.
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@moffittjc (121715)
• Gainesville, Florida
12 Jun 20
How long does it take the joeys to learn how to use their tail to help them balance and kick and such?
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@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
12 Jun 20
That was nice to let the kangaroos have a place to drink. It's a good feeling to know it wasn't stolen? Now found and reused differently.
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@JudyEv (342100)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Jun 20
@oahuwriter In some areas, kangaroos have been fenced out of farmlands and there is very little surface water in the bush so they often look for water.
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@LowRiderX (22903)
• Serbia
12 Jun 20
How interesting they are
I can't shake the impression that they walk so freely around you and that you put water on them to drink
I can't shake the impression that they walk so freely around you and that you put water on them to drink2 people like this
@JudyEv (342100)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Jun 20
@LowRiderX we have done that! 
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@DaddyEvil (137636)
• United States
12 Jun 20
Pretty and I have done something very similar, Judy... although we didn't use the basin to give water to kangaroos. 
We had ours at the back of the yard, behind a little stand of trees. When we put it back there we had found some frog eggs that were laid in a mud puddle that was drying out. Once the froggies finished using the basin we forgot to retrieve it. 
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@DaddyEvil (137636)
• United States
12 Jun 20
@JudyEv Yup! We kept saying why couldn't we remember where we put it? *shake my head*
Yup! We kept saying why couldn't we remember where we put it? *shake my head*2 people like this
@1creekgirl (41750)
• United States
12 Jun 20
This is so funny...I now hear you writing in an Australian accent. Or at least what I think one sounds like. Love the roos.
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@1creekgirl (41750)
• United States
13 Jun 20
@JudyEv Not sure how accurate it is, but I only have Crocodile Dundee and that Irwin guy to compare. 
It would help if you'd throw in "mate" or some other familiar Australian manner of speech sometimes. Thanks. I try the Irish accent with Fiacre and a Scottish accent with JimbO, but still working on them.
It would help if you'd throw in "mate" or some other familiar Australian manner of speech sometimes. Thanks. I try the Irish accent with Fiacre and a Scottish accent with JimbO, but still working on them.1 person likes this
@JudyEv (342100)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Jun 20
@1creekgirl I'll try and throw in a couple of 'Crikey's' from time to time. 
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@dgobucks226 (35733)
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12 Jun 20
I'm always misplacing things around the house. As I always say "it will turn up" somewhere, lol. Oh boy, more water for the roos. 
Sure they appreciate it
Sure they appreciate it 2 people like this
@JudyEv (342100)
• Rockingham, Australia
15 Jun 20
@dgobucks226 True, It's hard not to get annoyed when you know the stupid thing has to be somewhere simple! 
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Of course until they do I might get just a little annoyed 
@cperry2 (5608)
• Newport, Oregon
12 Jun 20
Thank you for caring about wildlife.
I put out bird feeders for the same reason. We have plenty of water here, and food too, but I like to have the birds visit so I give them seeds and I have a chew thing for the squirrels. Nothing else usually shows up in the yard, (at least nothing I see) Oh, wait, there was an opossum who wanted to nest beneath my lawnmower two years ago. I didn't know it was there until I pulled the mower out of the storeroom and rolled it out of its bed. I haven't seen it since, And no, I had not tried to start the mower with him under it (thank goodness)
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@allen0187 (58582)
• Philippines
12 Jun 20
Nice photo.
Plus, nice of you folks to think about the 'roos and provide drinking bins for them.
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@Aquitaine24 (11813)
• San Jose, California
12 Jun 20
Do you just forgot where it was.
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@JudyEv (342100)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Jun 20
I'd forgotten that we'd decided the 'roos needed another water basin.
@Carmelanirel2 (8084)
• United States
12 Jun 20
Awww, that is so sweet of you to give the basin to the kangaroos. I find it amazing, since I've never seen a kangaroo in the wild before, but if they are not destructive, I would probably do the same thing.
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@Carmelanirel2 (8084)
• United States
15 Jun 20
@JudyEv Ahh, so I probably wouldn't want them near me since I love to garden. So in that situation, I would visit friends who don't garden. 
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@Alexandoy (65308)
• Cainta, Philippines
12 Jun 20
What a nice place you have there with the wild animals.
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@Alexandoy (65308)
• Cainta, Philippines
12 Jun 20
@JudyEv it's like almost paradise there.
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